----- "Bill Broadley" <bill at cse.ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> Indeed. You'd hope that such long running jobs would checkpoint.
They didn't at first, but when we asked them to they
decided they were going to checkpoint all 2GB of RAM
every minute. Over NFS. We got them to fix that..
> Seems like the perfect place for virtualization.
..or blcr!
[...]
> Seems like it would be real popular with the admins.
> Anyone doing this?
How does it deal with pinned DMA memory on NICs ?
cheers,
Chris
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